Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-11-19
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Hugh McIIain, Charged with muir
dering Isaac Bayless, of Knoxville,
is in Jail there.
In the year 1914 two men, named
Crutchfield and Sanders, were sur
veying land on the Reelfoot Lake, in
Obion county, this State. One day
while they were at work they had a
difficulty and Sanders killed Crutch-
field with his Jacob staff and made
his escape to Missouri, where he
changed his name to Bean. From
Missouri he moved to some town in
Texas, where ne died a few months
ago, leaving a fortune amounting to
nearly 100000. His father who
lives is Mississippi, is now in Obion
county getting up evidence to show
that Bean and Sanders were the same
man in order to secure the estate.
Five colored laborers on the extern
sion of the Nashville, Florence and
Sheffield railroad We're killed by
being buried in a mass of rocks and
earth, loosend by an explosion of
charges of dynamite in a side-cut on
a road-bed. The fatality occurred
near Wayland Springs, and was the
result of a misunderstanding.
Extensive forest fires, the result of
prolonged drouth, are raging in West
Tennessee.
Mrs. Judge w. III. Williamson
died at Lebanon. Her first husband
was Gen. John III. Morgan, the
noted confederate cavalryman She
leaves FIVE children, Miss John
ME Morgan and four children by her
second husband, Judge w. I'll. Will
hanson.
AT Columbia, Robert Pillow was
elected mayor, E. Il. Erwin recorder,
rheo. Lipscomb city marshal.
AT Shelbyvillle, the new board of
mayor and aldermen are sweeping
clean. The liquor laws were EN-
forced on Sunday. Much spectula-
ton is being INDUCED as to the cleo
tion Of officers by the new board.
The jackson cotton compress has
handled about 1900 bales thus far
this season. The cotton in the Jack
son territory will average about two
thirds of crop this year. Nearly
all has been gathered. There has not
been much rain to damage the staple
and the crop will be saved in a clean
er condition than usual.
The coaches for the Jackson street
car line have arrived.
An electric light plant is arriving
at Jackson and will sooabe placed in
| position. l'la !,
John Paine was shot by VIM.
Woody, at A. McCullum's mill, on
Reelfoot lake, twenty miles from
Union City on Wednesday. Woody
had well-grounded auspicions that
the feelings existing between Paine
and his wife were entirely too cordi-
al for purely platonic affection and
warned Paine that he would kill him
III he continued his attentions to her.
/ On the fatal morning Paine threw q
note in Woody's front yard addressed
/ to Mrs. Woody, and her husband
found it. He got his pistol and went
to the mill where his enemy worked.
Paine had been out hunting and
when he returned he went to the
house, put away his gun and then
went to the mill where Woody was
still waiting for him. Woody drew
his pistol and shot Paine three times
two of the shots taking effect in his
abdomen and one in his face. Paine
lived until next morning and died
about o'clock. Woody escaped.
The report Of United States Com
missioner of Internal Revenue Mil
Ter just issued, shows that in Tennes
see there were collected as assets OF
distilled spirits by various collectors
in the State $le,9l2,5l6,05. Thii
amount was divided among collec
ton districts as follows: Second dis
j trict, Sl11,973.l2; Fifth 5000, 1929
The number of Illicit distillerie
seized in the State during the yea
was twenty-five, all of which wer
destroyed. The number of stills il
Tennessee is registered as 297. o
these 26l are in operation, sixteen o
them are grain distillers and q
fruit. There are in the State forty
: two Leaf tobacco factories, using
total of l,s59,1s7 pound Of material
The revenue collections under tn
eleomargarine law in the State dun
ing The year were $5l04. +.
A FULL line dress goods in gres